I know Rich already mentioned earlier that he stopped by to speak with Gaetan Campeau and the rest of the TelcoBridges team at WiMAX World, but I too had the pleasure of sitting down to hear what they were doing at this event.
Building on the high-availability Toolpack announced at ITEXPO, I learned that the company sees a great opportunity in WiMAX.
"We see very few voice solutions in WiMAX," Campeau told me.
"In WiMAX, since most deployments are by new service providers, they need a platform that can grow along with them," he added.
It's true that most WiMAX deployments are starting small, be it citywide, or covering small regions. Not too many nationwide deployments yet....
So for these carriers, they either offload voice to a competitor and not realize revenue, or they can deploy a voice solution like TelcoBridges and keep the revenue.
Campeau explained that increasing the ARPU is key for these operators. With the usual data ARPU running at around $45, adding voice can generate an increase of up to $23 on average. Per user.
That's good math, especially in the light of today's economic news.
